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Written:Written on January 18, 1920Published:First published in 1933 in LeninMiscellany XXIV.

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      Progress Publishers,1975,

      Moscow,Volume 44,

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Pleasetelephone Markov and tell him that I strongly
support Semashko’s
request.[1]

[1]Ina telephone message on January 18, 1920, People’s Commissar
for Health N. A. Semashko reported that the troop train with
B. S. Weissbrot’s Sanitary Commission, which was sent to the
Southern Front and the Ukraine to combat typhus, was proceeding
very slowly. “I request,” wrote Semashko, =

“1) an immediate
order for the train to be speeded up, =

2) special supervision over
it, =

3) investigation of the causes of delay and a trial of those to
blame by a revolutionary tribunal.” =

(Collected Works, Fifth Ed.,
Vol. 51, p. 404.)